Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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The right way is the hard way
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
Where are you losing by trying to save? Where are you taking the cheap path rather than embracing the expensive?
Ask yourself these questions, make the necessary change, and start falling in love with the hard way.
A lot of care went into curating the environment around the children—fascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembled—but the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
Childhoods of Exceptional People
✨ Where great ideas come from
Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
✨ Where great ideas come from
Process vs. intuition
Skinner’s three key insights — immediate rewards work better than delayed, unpredictable rewards work better than fixed, and conditioned rewards work better than primary — were found to also apply to humans, and in the 20th Century would be used by businesses to shape consumer behavior. From Frequent Flyer loyalty points to mystery toys in McDonald... See more
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
✨ Where great ideas come from
Gamification: Evolution of a concept from friend to foe
At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Childhoods of Exceptional People
✨ Where great ideas come from
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
✨ Where great ideas come from
Obsession > Talent
Don't forget to make the ordinary come alive
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
✨ Where great ideas come from
Great ideas require taste
5 lessons from one of the best books I’ve ever read
youtube.com✨ Where great ideas come from
Play is unlocked when we lower the stakes. (Relax for the same results)
✨ Where great ideas come from
Writing refines your thinking